Airware Grabs $30M

What does Airware do?

Airware, is a drone operating system startup which is expanding into hardware. It is the aerial info platform for developing and operating commercial drones.  It is building aerial info platform for the rapid development and safe operation of commercial drones, providing software, hardware and cloud services. The company enables consumers in tailoring drones for any commercial application by seamlessly connecting sensors, aircraft, application specific software and payloads.

How much Airware was funded?

Airware raised $30M in Series C on March 31, 2016 from John T. Chambers, Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Next World Capital.

Previous funding

• $220k on May 1, 2012
• $3M on March 31, 2013 from Y Combinator, RRE Ventures, Lemnos Labs, Promus Ventures, First Round,  GV and Shasta Ventures.
• $12.2M in Series A on May 15, 2013 from GV, First Round, Andreessen Horowitz, Promus Ventures and Felicis Ventures.
• $25M in Series B on July 23, 2014 from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, First Round and Andreessen Horowitz
• Undisclosed amount on November 18, 2014 from GE Ventures
• Undisclosed amount on April 16, 2015 from Intel Capital

What is next for Airware?

The company plans to use the latest funding raised for selling its complete drone solutions to Fortune 500 companies. It has added John Chambers, CEO of Cisco to its board of directors.

More about Airware

Airware was founded on May 1, 2011 by Jonathan Downey. It has its headquarters in San Francisco, CA. The company  used to sell drone OS and now it is going to sell whole flying kit and caboodle: drone hardware, software for controlling them and the cloud to store their date.  The company is slowly adapting to the technology of piecing together drone systems which can save the money and keep the employee’s out of the harm’s way.